Lighting-means-incorporated cigarette



1967 HIROSHI ISHII 3,359,987-

LIGHTING-MEANS*INCORPORATED CIGARETTE Filed May 17, 1966 INVENTOR Hl r'o sh. I S HII v WM! wi-pm United States Patent C) 3,359,987 LIGHTING-MEANS-INCORPORATED CIGARETTE Hiroshi Ishii, 1-26-4 Hojyo-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan Filed May 17, 1966, Ser. No. 550,656 1 Claim. (Cl. 131-7) This invention relates to a lighting-means-incorporated cigarette and more particularly to a cigarette having lighting means incorporated thereinto and adapted for lighting a cigarette without the use of a match or a lighter.

The cigarette according to the invention comprises, in combination, a small piece of hardened paper rolled around one portion of the tip of a cigarette roll, said piece of paper being applied thereover with an insoluble liquid prepared by working a small quantity of sulphur and potassium bichromate with a glue solution and thereafter dried, a short cotton strip inserted between said hardened paper piece and the cigarette roll and fixed integrally thereto on two points protrudely of the inside circumferential edge of the hardened paper piece, said short cotton strip being dried and hardened so as to form an enlarged head portion for use as a striking head and a reduced tail portion after being applied thereover with a lighting agent, and another piece of hardened paper adhered to the side portion of a cigarette pack, said another piece of hardened paper being used as a striking surface over which is applied a lighting agent prepared by working red phosphorous and antimony sulfide with a glue solution. In operation, the cigarette of the invention is picked on the hardened paper portion of the cigarette roll with fingers and is readily lit by striking the sulphurated head of the hardened cotton strip against the striking surface provided on the side of the cigarette pack, whereby smokers are relieved of the trouble to always carry a match or a lighter with them, finding great economy and convenience in the lighting-element-incorporated cigarette of the invention that can be at all times lit by itself.

The details of the construction and the operational effect of the invention will become more apparent in accordance with progress in description to be made of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pack of cigarettes in which the ends of the cigarettes are shown slightly protruded from the pack;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of a cigarette provided at the tip thereof with lighting means; and

FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view illustrating a cigarette roll at the moment the cigarette roll catches fire after being lit by the lighting element on the hardened paper portion and the encircling hardened paper portion is falling in flames.

Referring, now, to the drawings, potassium bichromate, sulphur, and resin are mixed with a diluted solution of glue at a ratio of, for example, 3:4:3. The mixture thus obtained is applied over paper 3 and dried so as to harden the paper 3. The paper hardened in the manner described is wound over a restricted area on the tip portion 2 of a cigarette roll 1 and a cotton strip shaped like a shortened match stick is inserted between said hardened paper 3 and the cigarette roll 1 on two opposing points along the inner circumferential edge of the hardened paper 3 and along the outer edge of the cigarette roll 1 slightly protrudedly of the edges, said 3,359,987 Patented Dec. 26, 1967 cotton strip being applied thereover with a lighting agent of fine quality, dried and hardened to produce a lighting element equivalent in function to the sulphurated head of a match in such a manner that the cotton strip thus treated may form an enlarged head portion 4 and a reduced tail end portion 4'. Said reduced tail end portion 4' is disposed outside of the circumferential tip of the cigarette roll 1 and inside of the circumference of said hardened paper ring 3 transversely thereof, while said enlarged head portion 4 is disposed slightly protrudedly of the cigarette roll 1, thus the cotton strip lighting element being integrated with the cigarette roll 1. On the other hand, a hardened paper piece 7 is adhered to the side of a cigarette pack 6, said hardened paper piece 7 being used as a striking surface, equal in function to that of a match, against which said cotton strip lighting element is struck and over which is applied a lighting agent prepared by working red phosphorus and antimony sulfide with a glue solution. The lighting means incorporated cigarette provided by the invention comprises, in combination, the means and portions described above. When the roll paper of said cigarette is dipped in a solution of pentachlorophenol and dried before it is used as roll paper, it can protect the cigarette from getting damp and mouldy. The lighting agent to be applied over the cotton strip that serves as a match stick works efliciently when it is prepared by adding manganese dioxide or potassium bichromate in the form of an oxidizer to potassium chlorate, thereafter mixing a combustible agent with the resulting mixture and further adding powdered glass or sand for an improved lighting effect. Many of the matches that are recently on the market are inferior in quality. The lighting agent used with the present invention is superior in quality, being prepared in the form of a cotton strip coated with a lighting agent and which is dried and hardened so as to form an enlarged head and a reduced tail end by mixing, for example, 45% of potassium chlorate, 15% of manganese dioxide, 2% of potassium bichromate with one another and adding 10% of sulphur, 3% of resin, 11% of powdered glass, 3% of diatom earth to the resulting mixture and by working the final mixture thus obtained with an 11% solution of glue and a dash of pigment for coloring. Preparing of the lighting agent in the manner described causes potassium bichromate to produce a special interaction on the glue to yield insoluble chrome gelatin and to impart a moisture resisting property to the cigarette.

What I claim is:

A lighting means incorporated with a cigarette comprising, in combination, a small piece of hardened paper rolled around a restricted portion of the tip of a cigarette roll, said small piece of hardened paper being applied thereover with an insoluble liquid including a mixture of a small quantity of sulphur and potassium bichromate with a glue solution and being thereafter dried, a short cotton strip having a coating of lighting material hardened thereon inserted on two points between the inner circumference of said hardened paper piece and the outer circumference of the cigarette roll, said short cotton strip slightly protruding from the lip of the cigarette roll and having an enlarged head portion for use as a striking head and a reduced tail end portion provided for insertion of the same, and another piece of hardened paper adhered to the side portion of a cigarette pack, said another piece of hardened paper being used as a striking surface over which is applied a lighting agent of red phosphorus and antimony sulfide with a glue solution.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 9/ 1924 Sorlie 1317 4 Schaefer 1317 Winter 1317 Raffa 131-7 Mabry 131-7 HUGH R. CHAMBLEE, Primary Examiner. 

